This week, TAG Heuer’s smartwatch, will fantasy sport betting soon be illegal?, Are data caps really because of network congestion?, Google makes machine learning open source, What streaming video player is right for you? … all this and more … on The Drill Down podcast.

Podcast

What We’re Playing With

Dwayne: a second Amazon Echo! (Thanks Inga C Earle)
Tosin: Tales from Borderlands, Automatic

Headlines

• Apple Watch reaches 7 million sales, but will miss ambitious analyst predictions
• TAG Heuer’s Connected smartwatch looks like an actual watch
• NY atty gen’l: DraftKings & FanDuel constitute illegal gambling under state law, orders them to stop accepting bets
• Happy? Sad? Angry? This Microsoft tool recognizes emotions in pictures

Audible Book of the Week

• James Bond series by Ian Fleming
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Music Break: Surrender (Tomorrow Never Dies) by k.d. lang

Hot Topic

• Leaked Comcast Memo Reportedly Admits Data Caps Aren’t About Improving Network Performance
• Google’s TensorFlow is open source—and it’s about to be a huge, huge deal

Music Break: Crawl Out Through the Fallout by Sheldon Allman

Final Word

• The ultimate, 10,000-word review of streaming media players: Apple TV vs. Roku 4 vs. Fire TV vs. Chromecast

The Drill Down Videos of the Week

• To see how driverless cars might perceive — and misperceive — the world, ScanLAB Projects drove a 3-D laser scanner through the streets of London.

• This Is What Tesla Autopilot Sees

• ‘Fallout 4’ Launch Trailer

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Geeks Of Doom’s The Drill Down is a roundtable-style audio podcast where we discuss the most important issues of the week, in tech and on the web and how they affect us all.

Hosts are Geeks of Doom contributor Andrew Sorcini (Mr. BabyMan), marketing research analyst Dwayne De Freitas, and Box tech consultant Tosin Onafowokan.